Sizzle vs Bristle - What's the difference?
sizzle | bristle | Related terms |
to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface
to be exciting or dazzling
(countable) the sound of water hitting a hot surface
(uncountable) zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.
A stiff or coarse hair.
The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
* Sir Walter Scott
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
* Shakespeare
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Sizzle is a related term of bristle.
As a verb sizzle
is to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface.As a noun sizzle
is (countable) the sound of water hitting a hot surface.As a proper noun bristle is
(slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).sizzle
English
Verb
(sizzl)- The song sizzled with energy.
Noun
- We heard the sizzle of the onions hitting the pan.
- Her performance had a lot of sizzle .
Anagrams
* English onomatopoeiasbristle
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Verb
(bristl)- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- to bristle a thread